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Movie scenes you've never understood

The scene of an injured/bloodied tennis player (blood pouring down from his knees especially) in "Death Becomes Her"; Ernest sees this while running after the doctor who's just diagnosed Madeline as dead.

One thing I've yet to understand (and maybe I'm just being thick somehow but no one has been able to clarify it for me) is in The Matrix when Trinity says something to the effect of "everything the Oracle told me has come true, except for this." What is "this" she is referring to??

One thing I've yet to understand (and maybe I'm just being thick somehow but no one has been able to clarify it for me) is in The Matrix when Trinity says something to the effect of "everything the Oracle told me has come true, except for this." What is "this" she is referring to??

One thing I've yet to understand (and maybe I'm just being thick somehow but no one has been able to clarify it for me) is in The Matrix when Trinity says something to the effect of "everything the Oracle told me has come true, except for this." What is "this" she is referring to??

I have always been of the opinion that the Lion, the Tinman and the Scarecrow were always the three farm hands, in a dream form. I assumed they if they were the same actors, then they were the same characters, with different attributes for the dream.

I have always been of the opinion that the Lion, the Tinman and the Scarecrow were always the three farm hands, in a dream form. I assumed they if they were the same actors, then they were the same characters, with different attributes for the dream.

One thing I've yet to understand (and maybe I'm just being thick somehow but no one has been able to clarify it for me) is in The Matrix when Trinity says something to the effect of "everything the Oracle told me has come true, except for this." What is "this" she is referring to??

"This" is that she would fall in love with "The One" and be in love with a dead man and "The One" would save them. Therefore, she is in love with Neo, who appears dead, but can't be because he is both "The One" who saves them and the one she is in love with. The Oracle is wrong about one or more details. Good thing it wasn't about Neo being The One, because that would have been a downer ending.

I strongly suspect that they tried to get a tricksy hobbit wordplay thing in the film and utterly failed. Remember the bit where the Nazgul threatens that he can't be killed by a man only to get stabbed by a woman and a hobbit? Something like that, but poorly executed.

I have always been of the opinion that the Lion, the Tinman and the Scarecrow were always the three farm hands, in a dream form. I assumed they if they were the same actors, then they were the same characters, with different attributes for the dream.

I have always been of the opinion that the Lion, the Tinman and the Scarecrow were always the three farm hands, in a dream form. I assumed they if they were the same actors, then they were the same characters, with different attributes for the dream.

"This" is that she would fall in love with "The One" and be in love with a dead man and "The One" would save them. Therefore, she is in love with Neo, who appears dead, but can't be because he is both "The One" who saves them and the one she is in love with. The Oracle is wrong about one or more details.

Or the one that she was sure was was about to come true hadn't yet because the time it would come true was the near future, and she was sure it would happen because all the rest already had.

Its a favorite in our household. It seems to be my lot in life to use The Wizard of Oz as a debate platform for the meaning of psychology, life and beer. I am somewhat convinced that this film is one of the few favorites we share and the disagreement is purposeful and has zilch to do with the movie.

Its a favorite in our household. It seems to be my lot in life to use The Wizard of Oz as a debate platform for the meaning of psychology, life and beer. I am somewhat convinced that this film is one of the few favorites we share and the disagreement is purposeful and has zilch to do with the movie.

How is it possible for her to hold the stance that the characters at the farm - are not caricaturized by the characters in Oz???

It isn't just her travelling companions, there's also
Almira Gulch who showed up as the Wicked Witch, and
Professor Marvel, who appears as The Wizard himself.

And the whole cyclone transition sequence: a little old lady in a rocking chair, knitting? Two men in a rowboat taking time to tip their hats? Miss Gulch peddaling her bicycle? And the bicycle turns into a broom?

And the whole cyclone transition sequence: a little old lady in a rocking chair, knitting? Two men in a rowboat taking time to tip their hats? Miss Gulch peddaling her bicycle? And the bicycle turns into a broom?